Mission Inn Resort & Club - El Campeon Course

Had an early tee time and had to get there from Kissimee, but it was more than worth getting up and driving the hour. It's always nice when you get an early tee time..there's usually none of the slow round/we're behind BS. The 4 of us had a slightly more than 4 hour round and enjoyed the beautiful layout. Tees, greens and fairways were all in good shape considering it's February! Staff was friendly and courteous. Cart girl was great! Thanks to all the staff for the great course and great day!
We'll be back!

I have time today.
When I checked in the “assistant golf pro” could not have been more dismissive of me. He said “tee time?”

I informed him I had a golf now tee time for 12:20. which he responded “Harrison?” And I said yes.

That was the last words he said to me. I asked for their smallest bucket of balls and he wrung me up for a medium bucket at 8.67. Again I asked for the smallest

When I approached the range, it was littered with non hit range balls making my purchase obsolete. I hit about 15 of them on the dirt range that looked like it hadn’t been replanted in 2 years.

After my great range session I checked in with the starter who informed me and 3 others we were next on the tee. So myself, a twosome, and another single approached the El Campeon course 10 minutes after our original tee time.

We approached the first tee where we were greeted with, another starter?

Who asked myself and the single if we had been asked to pair up which we both answered “no”.

He then proceeded to stare at us until we got out of the cart and paired up.

He then stood on the tee box as everyone of us teed off and commented on every shot.

What a great starter. And time

I WILL NEVER EVER EVER COME BACK HERE.

there is your review.

Also took 5 hours to play.

NOT WORTH IT.

For context, any golf is good golf at this time of year for a Canadian escaping the snow and cold. We were staying south of Orlando and we had a +1 hour drive to get to Mission Inn. We arrived plenty early and paid the green fees for el Campion and then they told us that things were 40 minutes delayed and then the starter told us the pace of play was not great. Needless to say we were disappointed but, hey no snow!
Then when we were told that we probably would not get full 18 in before dark even though we paid full rates that was upsetting. Meanwhile the tees on the other 18 hole course were empty. I asked if we could play there and were were accommodated. We enjoyed the course even though there were a lot of bare patches in a lot of the fairways.. We got our 18 in before dark (1:30 tee time) and headed back to our holiday rental. Later I learned that I paid an extra $10 x 4 for the course we never got to play and we really ought to have been paying a further reduction because the delay put us on the tee so close to time for twilight rates. So had fun but a bit of a bitter aftertaste.

We were told by the starter our tee time was 25-30 minutes behind. We were at 1:48 scheduled, plenty of time normally for a full 18.

They PACKED the course, pace of play was horrendous and multiple groups on each hole. Even with groups quitting in front of us, we were not getting close to finishing. It was frustrating and I doubt uncommon.

Course was OK, unique for FL as there is a fair amount of elevation change. It was more of an Up this hole and Downward on that hole. maybe skewed by the pace of play, but I was not very impressed. The exception being a couple island greens that were fun...although I didn't have daylight to play all four.

Unlikely to play again while in FL.

This is a popular destination for us every year. What a beautiful course. We played in 4 hours which was fabulous. Course conditions were great and what a friendly staff.

Course is long and very well designed, therefore, very challenging. Found a lot of poor conditions in course maintenance that needed to be addressed for both fairways and greens.

Way overbooked , we had 4 groups on 1 hole . We waited on every hole . I will not return .

This layout was awesome and super challenging. I wish the grass was in better condition for the drive that we had to make. Really nice day and the staff throughout the day including the pro-shop, cart person, and on course drink caddie were soooo friendly.

The course layout is outstanding. I have played it before, and it is a privilege.
The condition of the fairways were fair, greens & surrounds good.
Thought it was odd that the staff did not help me with my golf bag at the bag drop.
The pro extended me a PGA rate which was very nice of her.
Good day on the course!

Did not expect to find such a hilly course in Florida. Great layout and equally great conditions. Three island greens. Not a course for the faint of heart.

That’s not a $70 course! Did not care for the terrible pun placements. Almost every hole on the green was placed on an angle! Putting was not fun on your course and it would have been nice to at least have one flat lie on the green! We as a group didn’t care for hole 3 running parallel to another fairway from the back nine. Doubt I’ll be back.